Christmas in July

An amusing fantasy that starts interestingly but then fizzles out

A bit of pro-abortion propaganda that can’t stick to propaganda — and so manages to rise above its ideology to near greatness

In real life, recovery from addiction is a great and inspiring thing; in the movies not so much

A visual feast designed to make more palatable the movie’s dubious theology.

Another cinematic exercise in drinking deep from the intoxicating stream of popular paranoia

Josh and Jonas Pate, co-directors of Deceiver, have all the vices of the Coen brothers—mainly pretentiousness and self-conscious artiness—without any of the virtues. Their film is not funny and not even particularly intelligent, although it tries very hard to be the latter. So much so, indeed, that the three main characters are introduced to us…